Five ideas against social envy
How Germany can avoid distribution conflicts between refugees and locals
It has not yet passed a lot of time, it has been decided since the last time by a mass migration on a large German future question. 25 years ago, after the fall of the Wall, negotiating governments East and West Germany on the common currency. While talks about exchange rates were still running, more and more people left the GDR. In just the first two months of the wall opening attracted around 300,000 people. If the D-Mark does not come to the East, you have just come to her, it was then called. So suddenly everything went quickly. The voting with their feet counted more than all other arguments.
Today poverty is coming to Germany: in trains, trucks or on foot. If only every third refugee working age within a year could find a job, that would be much, says the Department of Labor. By implication, this means that unemployment will rise, once more asylum seekers are recognized. Not change this education, qualifications and ambition of many refugees nothing. Conflicts over the distribution apartments, student counseling and health services are therefore predictable - although not a politician so far says the public. Business representatives and liberals call for exceptions to the minimum wage. A proposed law against wage dumping through contracts for work will come later, because the Labour Ministry has to deal with the refugee crisis.
One wants to paying special attention to the most vulnerable, who already live in Germany now, SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel said at the weekend. They should not have the impression that they would suspended. The Left in Berlin adheres been striking back with appeals for solidarity with refugees. Also, the newly elected leader of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn wants to stand out with yet more liberal refugee policy of his predecessors.
It is not surprising that some of the trade unions, the conservative half of the SPD and the Left often wrangle with immigration. This not only from the fact that their voters and members often live near refugee camps and visit their children more schools with a high proportion of foreigners. No, these folk and workers' representatives also feel often responsible for those long-term unemployed, the elderly and women returners, the date from the good economic situation and the shortage of skilled workers promised opportunities in the labor market. On the other hand parties that call for international solidarity and sing in old songs, do not pinch, as more and more people in need from other countries expect these same solidarity in Germany. Should politicians first take care of those who need more urgent help - or to those who may choose? This moral dilemma can not be resolved. But five measures could help:
1. Migration think economically
Bears at Munich Central Station, racist Hetzer in Heidenau: How xenophobic or helpful the majority of Germans is really? Oliver Decker says, economical aspects would often underestimated when searching for answers. Decker is a professor of psychology at the University of Leipzig and co-author of Germany's largest study on right-wing settings. According to his research, the Germans look today not generally friendly, but differently to refugees during the asylum debate twenty years ago. Qualified, integration-ready refugees were welcome, it had become common knowledge that an aging country, the professionals are missing can benefit from them, says the researcher. Contrary to all other refugees, however, the reservations are greater than before. It hardly plays a role, interestingly enough, if the interviewee personally makes losing job or apartment. Decisive are only macroeconomic consequences.
Who social and distribution policy for immigration Nationswants to do, could begin to take this attitude to knowledge.This is often not the case, because we care for historical reasons, particularly for religion and racism.The Holocaust has raised awareness of everyday xenophobia, generations of sociologists and pollsters have documented its excesses. And the debate on Islam after the attacks of 11 September 2001 have led to the integration policy was strongly focused on religious themes. That was often good, but sometimes a cause for misunderstandings.
We assume xenophobia and racism, although relegation fears and social envy are better explanations. For economists is obvious that of all citizens seemingly liberal countries such as Denmark or the Netherlands as susceptible to right-wing populism is. In states with a lot of redistribution there is finally more occasions for such resentment. With the scope of the guaranteed benefits, the reservations against strangers who might benefit without their own power grow. Conversely, it falls to the United States easier to let immigrants into the country, because new citizen can complain less demands on the state.
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The lower middle class has already begun by supposedly no money for Educators inside wage increase was gone.
No money for the promised tax cuts, no money for infrastructure.
West Germany and especially NRW has still not recovered from the costs of reunification.
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And that was to a large extent pure economic refugees who also spoke German and were very well trained to a large extent.
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